Godless Business

Queen of Christ Starved Child

Often I am asked why I care about other people’s beliefs.  Where is the harm in supernatural beliefs?  Why is it wrong to live your life as if a deity can step in and rescue the situation at any time?  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen of Jesus Christ.  Behold!

On Tuesday, along with two others, the Queen of Jesus Christ (real name Antoinette) was convicted of starving her 16 month old boy to death.  Why?  Because he would not say “amen” during mealtimes.  The insolence of kids today!

Poor Javon spent a week without food or water before his heart gave up and stopped.  The Queen of Jebus responded by commanding her followers to pray for the boys resurrection while she talked to him, danced his with his lifeless body, and tried to give him drinks – bit that for that my dear.

After a few weeks of this and obviously not getting anywhere, the boy’s body would have turned black and started to smell- so they stuffed him into a suitcase and moved in houses – stashing the suitcase and its gruesome contents behind the shed.

Is there a boy in here?

At the time of Javon’s death the house also contained three other children (who made damn sure they said “amen” after every mouthful) and a family friend.  She obviously Queen Jebus does not think much of her friends since she committed to a mental asylum after she spoke to outsiders about the toddlers death.  I dunno, maybe it was the “God weed”  that made her talk crazy like that (this manics pet name for marijuana, which she encouraged everyone in the cult to smoke regularly).

This monumental idiot is so delusional she thinks the only defence required in a court of law is a hand written application for the non-profit status of “1 Mind Ministries” (here dumb ass cult).  I think they over estimated the number of minds involved.  It also happened to be the document that describe her as:

“…as a chosen daughter of the most high God and a queen of Jesus Christ.”

Whatever, you fucking whack job.  Bailiff!  Lock her up!

According to cult members, Quee… no, Antoinette ran a very strict household.  Members where only allowed to wear white, blue, and khaki (hey – don’t ask me), they were only allowed to leave the house in pairs (echos the oppression of Muslim women), and were told to destroy all identification and cut contact with relatives and friends (lest they talk you out of this bat shit crazy insanity).

Antoinette still believes prayer will raise the decomposed and suitcase encased corpse that once was her baby boy back to life.  She says she

“…I don’t care if it makes me sound crazy.”

Oh believe me, it does!

Of course there is absolutely zero evidence that the boy will be resurrected, especially now at least a year after the fact.  There is no evidence god speaks to Antoinette through marijuana.  There is no reason to think wearing only white, blue, and khaki will make god happy.  There is no evidence for anything in this massively shitty personal catastrophe.

So what’s the harm in believing things for which there is no evidence?  It allows all manner of things and prevent none.  Just ask Javon.

References

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35676266/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Cynskeptical Cynskeptical

    Really there isn't much you can say to a story like that. Clearly the group is beyond the sanity of normal folk. Hell they are even beyond normal for those of the religious persuassion.

    However I will say this. Saying this woman and her group are crazy is one thing, but the fact remains, that at the base of her lunacy remains one foundation for which she has based all of her crazy beliefs, and that is religion. Christianity in this case. And please DO NOT give me some bullshit reply like "but that isn't what christianity is about", because quite frankly that just doesn't cut it anymore. Much like fanatical muslims who blow themselves up isn't part of the muslim faith. Remove religion and all this dumb founded, backward stone age beliefs, take away such easy reasons for people to hurt others and to take advantage of them and I bet you anything the world would be a far better place. And it would be PEACEFUL in comparison.

    Seriously, for all you believers out there, it is stories like this one and hundreds if not thousands of others that should make you sit up and start to question your so called faith.

    If you don't then really you are just as bad as they are, condoning them in your silence and lack of rethinking.

    • http://www.facebook.com/anwyll David Gibson

      I think if you remove religion from the equation, the most you could say is she would have just been mentally ill. However, in simply being mentally ill she would not have been afforded respect and authority by the other members of her cult, hell she wouldn't of had one at all.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/Cynskeptical Cynskeptical

        Very true. But I doubt that fact in itself would be enough for a theist not to give such comments as I have already stated above. They tend to worm their way out of any kind of guilt without even breaking a sweat.

        • http://www.facebook.com/anwyll David Gibson

          For sure, I was trying to be as generous about the scenario as possible. Personally, I find it almost impossible to see how this particular case could have come about without religion.

  • http://twitter.com/TurboFool @TurboFool

    The typical argument against this would obviously be that THIS woman was just plain crazy, and that she'd be crazy without her religion. And that's 100% true.

    But only religion makes it this hard to distinguish between crazy and devout, crazy and faithful, crazy and honorable, crazy and dedicated. So much of what a person like this does is so close to what religion dictates (or IS what it dictates when taken literally) that people like this don't get weeded out until it's too late, and they get others to follow them who can't tell the difference either.

    Without religion their insanity would be far, far more obvious, and could be stopped and helped before the harm was done. At least that's my personal opinion, but is hard to verify with as few comparison points as we have. Sure seems to add up, though. Without the backing and justification, they just become regular crazy people who need help instead of hands-off believers we're supposed to respect.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/askegg askegg

      Welcome TurboFool,

      I totally agree with you. Crazy people are perfectly camouflaged in religions because the religions themselves are crazy. Even "mostly harmless" versions of Christianity have some totally bat shit ideas at their heart. Most people are able to use their reason, logic, and modern moralities to worm their way out of literal interpretations of their "holy texts", but the can never bring themselves to condemn other people's beliefs until the actually result in horrors like this case. I suspect they do not do so because they know their own beliefs do not stand up to exactly the same criticisms – a collusion among thugs.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Cynskeptical Cynskeptical

    I'd disagree with you there on that last part Andrew. I think what you will find is that due to pressure from their peers, those that do come to some conclusion that their religion is full of shit won't often speak out for fear of being persecuted and ridiculed by those that they consider friends and also family in a lot of cases. To be left out in the cold and, cast out by your peers is for some a fate worse than death. Fortunately for these people, there are others in the same boat that they can go to, but for many I suspect, they do not really know about such groups as ours and others.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/askegg askegg

      I don't think you're disagreeing with me – I think you are adding another factor. I never claimed mine was the only reason.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/Cynskeptical Cynskeptical

        Well ok good point.

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